Our Alumni

Alumni

Ben Forest- 1990- Ben is a Major in the U.S. Air Force, and is working on his second Masters degree at the Naval Postgraduate School in Los Angeles. Ben is now going to be an instructor at the Air Command and Staff College in Alabama. Ben is married and has two daughters.

Tod Beardsley- 1992- Tod works for TippingPoint Technologies, a division of 3Com, in Austin, Texas. Tod works in information security.

Vanessa Wilcox- 1992  Vanessa graduated from UCSC in 1996 with a double major in Psychology and Philosophy. Vanessa received a Masters of Science in Organization Development from the University of San Francisco in 2005. She is Vice President of Learning and Development for Wells Fargo's Internet Services Group. I serve on the Board of Directors for BayKids, a non-profit organization. Vanessa lives with her boyfriend of 6 years in San Francisco (no kids.)

Jon Feldhammer- 1995- John just completed his law degree at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, after earning his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Vassar.

Shoshana Risman- 1998- Shoshana earned her B.A. in environmental studies: agroecology from U.C. Santa Cruz, and is working on Masters of Public Policy (MPP) with a concentration in environmental science policy at the George Washington University while managing the NASA DEVELOP internship team at Goddard Space Flight Center studying applications of satellite measurements and environmental policy for Chesapeake Bay watershed management.

Jessica Jarett- 2001- After earning her BA from Long Island University in marine biology, Jessica worked under a Fullbright scholarship in research designed to help conserve the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Now she is working on her Ph.D. at the University of New Hampshire in microbiology, studying a newly discovered symbiosis between corals and cyanobacteria.

Nicole Yazolino- 2001- After graduating from San Jose State University with a B.A. in music, Nicole is pursuing her vocal studies at the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.

Summer Chrisman- 2002- Summer spent a semester abroad in Kenya with the School of Field Studies through Boston University, and then graduated with a degree in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley.

Ashley Nelson- 2002- Ashley has graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in engineering and is now pursuing her advanced degree from University of Nevada at Reno, specializing in seismic safety engineering.